Sellout crowd at Petco Park has plenty to cheer as sense of normalcy returns to ballpark
Long lines at Petco Park entrances. Crowded concourses inside the ballpark. Loud cheers. Make that roars.“Hopefully, hopefully,” said Dick Nasif, aLast year, there were 10,350 people in the Petco Park stands — seemingly half of them wearing Fernando Tatis Jr. jerseys — for the Padres’ first home game.The coronavirus pandemic may not be completely eradicated, but Thursday evening it took a backseat to baseball.
“It’s pretty enthusiastic everywhere,” Nasif said, “around the downtown area, on the trolley, at the food court. All of it.”“I’d like to see Tatis back,” Nasif said.Sylvia and Sergio Romero of El Centro wait in line to buy gear at the Padres Team Store before Thursday’s home opener.An hour before first pitch, Sergio and Sylvia Romero of El Centro were among five dozen fans in line to get into the Padres Team Store.
The chains were hanging among the caps and jerseys and other souvenirs in the Padres Team Store, selling for $40 .“I guarantee you everybody’s going to be blinging,” Sergio Romero assured.
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